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Since it appeared in hardcover in 1991, this book has become a classic of American garden history. Now this much-praised pictoral survey of America's great private estate gardens and their illustrious owners is available in paperback, with all the original period photographs and rare handcolored lantern slides from the archives of the Garden Club of America. For lovers of Americana and biography as well as for garden historians, here is a book to consult often and to read for sheer pleasure—one that brings to life an astonishingly bountiful period in our nation's past.